{"id":571,"date":"2014-12-26T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2014-12-26T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T11:23:45","slug":"soldiers-die-in-attack-on-libya-oil-terminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/soldiers-die-in-attack-on-libya-oil-terminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers die in attack on Libya oil terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 19 soldiers have been killed in a surprise attack in which fighters used speedboats in a failed bid to seize some of Libya&#8217;s main oil terminals, according to witnesses.<br \/>\nFighters launched Thursday&#8217;s attack on al-Sidra port by firing rockets from speedboats, setting an oil tank on fire, security sources told AFP news agency.<br \/>\nSoldiers damaged three of the vessels before clashes in which the fighters were eventually repelled, sources said.<br \/>\n&#8220;These speedboats had fired several rockets at the terminals of Ras Lanuf and al-Sidra and one of them hit a tank south of al-Sidra port which then caught fire,&#8221; said Ali al-Hassi, security spokesperson for the region&#8230;<br \/>\nThe latest clashes pushed oil prices higher in Asia on Friday, with US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for February delivery rising 28 cents to $56.12, while Brent for February gained 13 cents to $60.37.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 19 soldiers have been killed in a surprise attack in which fighters used speedboats in a failed bid to seize some of Libya&#8217;s main oil terminals, according to witnesses. Fighters launched Thursday&#8217;s attack on al-Sidra port by firing rockets from speedboats, setting an oil tank on fire, security sources told AFP news agency. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}